Hi, I am 28 years old and I started TRT with a doc 5 months ago in Canada.
I had to leave the country 2 months after starting the treatment and I have been doing my TRT alone for 3 months.
I inject 50 mg of T and 1500 IU of hCG on mondays and fridays. No Arimidex.

I no longer have morning woods or erections during the day and it’s been like that for a while.
I don’t know why but it looks like my TRT is not working like it used to.
I am waiting for 2 weeks before doing a blood test so I could use my health coverage.
It won’t be a sensitive test for estradiol though as it does not exist where I live now.

Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.

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I can be a bit abrupt in my replies and recommendations. I have a lot of ground to cover as this forum has become much more active in the last two years. I can’t follow threads that go deep over time. You need to respond to all of my points and requests as soon as possible before you fall off of my radar. The worse problems are guys who ignore issues re thyroid, body temperatures, history of iodized salt. Please do not piss people off saying that lab results are normal, we need lab number and ranges.

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What I have here is a vial of 5000 IU in 1 mL. An injection of 250 IU would be trying to gather about 0,05 mL in the syringe. I injected the minimum this morning, so about 0,1 mL of hCG. That would mean 500 IU. It’s still way under what the doctor gave me months ago.

I have read about the benzyl alcohol so I ordered some bac. water and I received it this morning.
So that’s perfect, I have now some empty sterilized vials of 10 mL and one 30 mL bottle of bacteriostatic water.
I will finish my hCG from friday in 2 days and then do what you all recommend.

I think the balance of e2 and t have to almost be perfect. Which after all the reading I did is rare. I will say I did have regular morning and nightime erections while taking daily Cialis.

Which I think I will start up again. I just stopped it to make sure it was not causing bloat which it appears not to. I think it’s my e2 at 30 which is causing it. So it’s either I play the frustrating game using an AI or use Cialis.
I hate not knowing if my erection will maintain.

Cialis use can have long term side effects due to the fact it works in the body as other PDE. Better to look into it altough serous complications dont seem to frequent.

“Viagra can decrease blood flow to the optic nerve of the eye, causing sudden vision loss. This has occurred in a small number of people taking sildenafil, most of whom also had heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or certain pre-existing eye problems, and in those who smoked or were over 50 years old. It is not clear whether sildenafil is the actual cause of vision loss.”

Maybe it doesnt cause sudden vision loss but I just dont like the idea of my optic nerves get less blood.